OzikoroBenin’s Democratic Leap: The 1990 National Conference and the Multi-Party System.
The West African nation of Benin (formerly the People’s Republic of Benin) underwent one of Africa’s most remarkable transitions from a single-party Marxist-Leninist regime to a multi-party democracy in the early 1990s. Central to this transformation was the sovereign 1990 National Conference of Benin (Conférence nationale souveraine), held in February 1990, which paved the…